I think if they manage to get the do not call stuff revoked, we should start up an anti-telemarketing campaign where we get people to be as completely obnoxious and resource wasting as possible.
And, with things like Asterisk, its probably easier than ever to do something like this. If they're going to waste our time with thier crappy calling, I think we owe it to them to waste as much of their money as possible, and make being a telemarketing droid as unpleasant as possible.
I think you misunderstand the problem. Its more akin to a writer being forced by their editor/publisher to release a work that's still in between a rough draft and a final draft. That, and with the publishers seemingly able to stipulate odd requirements for patches make it really hard for the developers to even publicly fix issues sometimes. (I seem to remember this being the case with atari/moo3)
On the test realm, items can be duped by re-copying characters
Doesn't that sort of defeat most of the purpose of a test realm? Sure, to see if the new bug got smashed, but also to balance areas, mobs, etc? And what purpose would allowing duping to happen achieve?
I actually already do this. Whenever I get a paycheck, I already know how much I need for bills. I then just deposit the check and get enough cash for spending money until the next paycheck. Then whenever I want a 10 foot inflatible joy doll, I can feel safe in my anonymity.
How in the world is this sweatshop conditions? Are they being charged by their employer for room and board for more than what they're being paid? Are they only being paid $1 a day/week/whatever?
Seems to me that for a 12 hour gaming binge, $150 is way more than the $8/hr minimum wage.
I'd say if they're unhappy getting paid $12.50 to play video games, go flip some burgers for a few weeks and then decry. If they still don't like it... Well, it still doesn't make it sweatshop slave labor.
You should setup a cronjob to bzip2 or gzip old logs on midnight, and rotate them somewhere. I usually rotate old logfiles to a backup partition of some kind.. An example script might be something like:
Also, look into newsyslog. It'll help you configure auto-rotation and movement of logfiles. You can spec things like how many to keep, when to rotate, what processes should be notified upon rotation (can be important!), what compression level you want, what kind of compression (bz2, gz, etc). Really, really, really handy. It'll even let you spec default permissions, and user/group ownership for files as well.. Should check it out.
Easiest way is to create a small IRC network, and submit the name to all the irc clients out there, so it'll be in the list. Also, name it something so it appears at the top or near the top...
To inflate user counts, just get an ircd that allows assigning yourself or others fake hostnames (for certain hosts/etc). Then load tons of bots in channels pretending to be 'users'. You could even get creative and make them idely chatter with each other..
Anyways, the point is that most of these botnet peoples eventually want to take a part of their net out to go mess with irc channels, and they usually seem to target smaller networks on the top of whatever list they're using.. So all ya gotta do if just log massive joins into certain channels, or when a flood of users magically connect to your fake network.. Then you have tons of bots to dissect or whatever.
I'm not trying to flame, or troll, or feed the trolls, but here goes...
Think of OSes like vehicles. Linux is kinda like a pickup truck. You can convert the back into different things by putting different canopies, etc on it. Can make it go really damned fast, or carry alot of stuff, or people, or whatever.
OpenBSD is like a tank. Its not really designed for speed per se, but for maximal protection against outside attackers. Its not going to be a desktop. Its not going to play your mp3's. Its just going to stand there and serve content or route packets.
That's not true. My company, which is a local computer shop/isp manages to sell computers that are higher quality (intel boards/cpus, kingston/micron ram, etc) and still manages to consistantly come out $100 or so below and better specwise than dell. All with quality parts..
Its doable, you just need to do your homework and be on top of things otherwise you'll either end up with crap or a way overpriced system.
You know, I had a 386/16 with 4 megs that started lynx faster than your netscape 4 on your speedy k6-2 450.
So, what's your point? Progress means moving forward, which means applications do more. To do that requires more cpu, more ram, more everything. YOU figure out how to get a decent browser with graphics and a ui that's usable to the general public.
Most of the 'bloat' is because users want things, and so developers do their job and add them.
I'd be suprised if the people they managed to infect even noticed. Or cared as long as their machine was running. Hell, as long as you don't take a damned sledgehammer to their machine, they could honestly care less as long as they:
- have access to their porn - can play solitare/hearts/freecell/minesweeper - get & write email - open the internet - do some 'work' with word/excel
I can almost guarantee that your computer (even just idle) has at least a dozen or so processes going on. On top of that, any time you've been browsing the web and visiting anything with javascript/java/flash/etc, you can be sure that there's at least 1-2 extra processes just to show you the shiny bits.
Where we REALLY need these is for future applications. As time goes on we seem to be demanding that our computers do more and more. Just typing stuff up has gone from a simple plain text editor to OOo/Word/etc where you have inline pictures, interesting formatting, macros, inline spreadsheets, data objects, and on and on...
Not to mention gaming. Every AI guy you see running around could be smarter. Every environment could be more reactive to your prescence, more shiny bits to go flying as you blow stuff up, or allow your strategy game to go into more detail.
Just because there's apps out there that aren't multithreading doesn't mean that multiple cores/HTT isn't worth it. It absolutely is worth it. We should be pressing forward as hard as possible, not resting on our laurels because what we have is 'good enough'. If that was the case, we definately wouldn't be where we are now.
Y'know, if you want to get technical about it, generally speaking governments and educational instituions get much much nicer prices for software than the $130 for XP Pro. The 130 I quoted was from zipzoomfly. Which, seeing as I didn't see a non-oem version means that they must be shipping these to customers.
And before you say it, the only thing they need to do to ship the oem version is throw some crappy ass old memmory or something in the package and its suddenly OEM. In fact, the last time I ordered a 5-pack of OEM copies, I was also sent a 512K of 30 pin.;)
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Yea, because that's the way to get people who don't believe in the GPL to start contributing. Just beat it out of them whilst using the GPL as a club.
"GIVE *WHACK* ME *WHACK* YOUR *BAM* SOURCE *WHACK* CODE NOW!!!"
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I don't see what the FSF or the GNU or GPL has anything to do with FreeBSD or OSX. We'd be fine without RMS' craziness. Afterall, the BSD license isn't even 'compatible' with the GPL, remember?
I send enough money to the Free/Net/OpenBSD projects, and buy enough trinkets/cd sets/books from them to support them, and will happily continue to do so.
I will not, however, support RMS in any way, shape, or form. His arrogance in thinking his way is the end all be all will keep me away for some time to come.
Windows xp pro is ~130 or so. If they honestly don't have the money, but want to move forward, they really should think about adopting linux or freebsd or some kind of popular open source OS. Unless they're playing video games, everything they could possibly want is there for them.
Did anybody else notice how strange Thompson's comments on statistics are? e.g.
"...a Gallop poll found 71 percent of all U.S teenage boys who played Vice City were twice as likely to have been engaged in an act of violence."
What? 71 percent were twice as likely? Is this some kind of maths problem?
I don't agree with it, but the wording is correct. He's saying that out of a control group, 71% that played vice city were twice as likely to commit crimes than people who did not.
Think of it like this. You want to find out how many people wash their hands. You poll 100,000 random people and find that about 10% wash their hands.
You then run an ad campaign, like say, "wash your hands or die of salmonella!". Then after a six month run, you run the same poll again. You also include a question saying "Did you see the wash your hands ad?". You find that about half (50,000) people did. And of those people, 60% wash their hands.
You now have a statistic that says 50% of the people who saw the ad are six times more likely to wash their hands than the people who did not see it.
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I think if they manage to get the do not call stuff revoked, we should start up an anti-telemarketing campaign where we get people to be as completely obnoxious and resource wasting as possible.
And, with things like Asterisk, its probably easier than ever to do something like this. If they're going to waste our time with thier crappy calling, I think we owe it to them to waste as much of their money as possible, and make being a telemarketing droid as unpleasant as possible.
I think you misunderstand the problem. Its more akin to a writer being forced by their editor/publisher to release a work that's still in between a rough draft and a final draft. That, and with the publishers seemingly able to stipulate odd requirements for patches make it really hard for the developers to even publicly fix issues sometimes. (I seem to remember this being the case with atari/moo3)
Doesn't that sort of defeat most of the purpose of a test realm? Sure, to see if the new bug got smashed, but also to balance areas, mobs, etc? And what purpose would allowing duping to happen achieve?
Do you have a test to see who remembered the most from the book, or do you just speed-read through it, flipping the pages like a hand-held cartoon?
I actually already do this. Whenever I get a paycheck, I already know how much I need for bills. I then just deposit the check and get enough cash for spending money until the next paycheck. Then whenever I want a 10 foot inflatible joy doll, I can feel safe in my anonymity.
I guess you play what you want. Either SC with its zerg/marine rushes or TA with its turtling.
How in the world is this sweatshop conditions? Are they being charged by their employer for room and board for more than what they're being paid? Are they only being paid $1 a day/week/whatever?
Seems to me that for a 12 hour gaming binge, $150 is way more than the $8/hr minimum wage.
I'd say if they're unhappy getting paid $12.50 to play video games, go flip some burgers for a few weeks and then decry. If they still don't like it... Well, it still doesn't make it sweatshop slave labor.
You should setup a cronjob to bzip2 or gzip old logs on midnight, and rotate them somewhere. I usually rotate old logfiles to a backup partition of some kind.. An example script might be something like:
/var/log/somelogfile.log && mv /var/log/somelogfile.log.gz /some/place/else
gzip -9
Note that that will not properly 'rotate' logs..
Also, look into newsyslog. It'll help you configure auto-rotation and movement of logfiles. You can spec things like how many to keep, when to rotate, what processes should be notified upon rotation (can be important!), what compression level you want, what kind of compression (bz2, gz, etc). Really, really, really handy. It'll even let you spec default permissions, and user/group ownership for files as well.. Should check it out.
Actually, its more than that because the 64 bit pci slots run at 66MHz. So, 64*66Mhz = 4.224 Gb/s. Keep in mind also that PCI-X is even faster still.
Easiest way is to create a small IRC network, and submit the name to all the irc clients out there, so it'll be in the list. Also, name it something so it appears at the top or near the top...
To inflate user counts, just get an ircd that allows assigning yourself or others fake hostnames (for certain hosts/etc). Then load tons of bots in channels pretending to be 'users'. You could even get creative and make them idely chatter with each other..
Anyways, the point is that most of these botnet peoples eventually want to take a part of their net out to go mess with irc channels, and they usually seem to target smaller networks on the top of whatever list they're using.. So all ya gotta do if just log massive joins into certain channels, or when a flood of users magically connect to your fake network.. Then you have tons of bots to dissect or whatever.
Am I the only one that misread the title as "how to Load balance life, technology, and kids"?
I'm not trying to flame, or troll, or feed the trolls, but here goes...
Think of OSes like vehicles. Linux is kinda like a pickup truck. You can convert the back into different things by putting different canopies, etc on it. Can make it go really damned fast, or carry alot of stuff, or people, or whatever.
OpenBSD is like a tank. Its not really designed for speed per se, but for maximal protection against outside attackers. Its not going to be a desktop. Its not going to play your mp3's. Its just going to stand there and serve content or route packets.
Code in question:
/* The LCs... */
/* Does this belong here? */
/* The unknown one and the end... */
{MACH_MACLCII, "LC", " II", MACH_CLASSLC, &romvecs[3]},
{MACH_MACLCIII, "LC", " III", MACH_CLASSLC, &romvecs[14]},
{MACH_MACLC475, "LC", " 475", MACH_CLASSQ, &romvecs[9]},
{MACH_MACLC520, "LC", " 520", MACH_CLASSLC, &romvecs[15]},
{MACH_MACLC575, "LC", " 575", MACH_CLASSQ2, &romvecs[16]},
{MACH_MACCCLASSIC, "Color Classic", "", MACH_CLASSLC, &romvecs[3]},
{MACH_MACCCLASSICII, "Color Classic"," II", MACH_CLASSLC, &romvecs[3]},
{MACH_MACCLASSICII, "Classic", " II", MACH_CLASSLC, &romvecs[3]},
{0, "Unknown", "", MACH_CLASSII, NULL},
That's not true. My company, which is a local computer shop/isp manages to sell computers that are higher quality (intel boards/cpus, kingston/micron ram, etc) and still manages to consistantly come out $100 or so below and better specwise than dell. All with quality parts..
Its doable, you just need to do your homework and be on top of things otherwise you'll either end up with crap or a way overpriced system.
You know, I had a 386/16 with 4 megs that started lynx faster than your netscape 4 on your speedy k6-2 450.
So, what's your point? Progress means moving forward, which means applications do more. To do that requires more cpu, more ram, more everything. YOU figure out how to get a decent browser with graphics and a ui that's usable to the general public.
Most of the 'bloat' is because users want things, and so developers do their job and add them.
I'd be suprised if the people they managed to infect even noticed. Or cared as long as their machine was running. Hell, as long as you don't take a damned sledgehammer to their machine, they could honestly care less as long as they:
- have access to their porn
- can play solitare/hearts/freecell/minesweeper
- get & write email
- open the internet
- do some 'work' with word/excel
Hey, at least they're not calling it hypertreading.
I can almost guarantee that your computer (even just idle) has at least a dozen or so processes going on. On top of that, any time you've been browsing the web and visiting anything with javascript/java/flash/etc, you can be sure that there's at least 1-2 extra processes just to show you the shiny bits.
Where we REALLY need these is for future applications. As time goes on we seem to be demanding that our computers do more and more. Just typing stuff up has gone from a simple plain text editor to OOo/Word/etc where you have inline pictures, interesting formatting, macros, inline spreadsheets, data objects, and on and on...
Not to mention gaming. Every AI guy you see running around could be smarter. Every environment could be more reactive to your prescence, more shiny bits to go flying as you blow stuff up, or allow your strategy game to go into more detail.
Just because there's apps out there that aren't multithreading doesn't mean that multiple cores/HTT isn't worth it. It absolutely is worth it. We should be pressing forward as hard as possible, not resting on our laurels because what we have is 'good enough'. If that was the case, we definately wouldn't be where we are now.
Y'know, if you want to get technical about it, generally speaking governments and educational instituions get much much nicer prices for software than the $130 for XP Pro. The 130 I quoted was from zipzoomfly. Which, seeing as I didn't see a non-oem version means that they must be shipping these to customers.
;)
And before you say it, the only thing they need to do to ship the oem version is throw some crappy ass old memmory or something in the package and its suddenly OEM. In fact, the last time I ordered a 5-pack of OEM copies, I was also sent a 512K of 30 pin.
Yea, because that's the way to get people who don't believe in the GPL to start contributing. Just beat it out of them whilst using the GPL as a club.
"GIVE *WHACK* ME *WHACK* YOUR *BAM* SOURCE *WHACK* CODE NOW!!!"
I don't see what the FSF or the GNU or GPL has anything to do with FreeBSD or OSX. We'd be fine without RMS' craziness. Afterall, the BSD license isn't even 'compatible' with the GPL, remember?
I send enough money to the Free/Net/OpenBSD projects, and buy enough trinkets/cd sets/books from them to support them, and will happily continue to do so.
I will not, however, support RMS in any way, shape, or form. His arrogance in thinking his way is the end all be all will keep me away for some time to come.
Windows xp pro is ~130 or so. If they honestly don't have the money, but want to move forward, they really should think about adopting linux or freebsd or some kind of popular open source OS. Unless they're playing video games, everything they could possibly want is there for them.
Apparently they're charging $30 to see the article. There is however a bugmenot login.
They must be using Windows ClusterFun edition.
I don't agree with it, but the wording is correct. He's saying that out of a control group, 71% that played vice city were twice as likely to commit crimes than people who did not.
Think of it like this. You want to find out how many people wash their hands. You poll 100,000 random people and find that about 10% wash their hands.
You then run an ad campaign, like say, "wash your hands or die of salmonella!". Then after a six month run, you run the same poll again. You also include a question saying "Did you see the wash your hands ad?". You find that about half (50,000) people did. And of those people, 60% wash their hands.
You now have a statistic that says 50% of the people who saw the ad are six times more likely to wash their hands than the people who did not see it.